[MlMt] The Auto-apply Rules Strike Back

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 23 Mar 2015, at 21:39, David O'Donnell wrote:

> On 23 Mar 2015, at 16:26, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> The workaround is to make a smart mailbox with the date condition 
>> such that the message does arrive in a mailbox when it matches the 
>> date condition. The rule in this mailbox should then only have the 
>> “Move to Mailbox” action (without any conditions). A side-effect 
>> is that this smart mailbox is always empty.
>
> I’m afraid I’m not getting it… I need another Smart Mailbox that 
> is based on the real destination mailbox and triggers the delete 
> action?

You have a mailbox A with some messages. You want to delete them 
automatically after 10 days. Then you need a smart mailbox based on A 
like this:

	Mailboxes: A
	Conditions: Date not within last 10 days
	Rule with an action only: “Move to Deleted Messages”

This mailbox is empty as long as no messages in A are older than 10 
days. When a message reach 10 days of age then it is added to the smart 
mailbox. This triggers the rule which moves the message to Deleted 
Messages. This is why the mailbox is always empty. Its only purpose is 
to trigger the action.

Was that better?

-- 
Benny
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